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Christmas Shopping Suggestionfrom www.PowellRiverBooks.com The book that started it all! Up the LakeCoastal BC StoriesHead up Powell Lake to experience life in an off the grid float cabin, take a boat to world famous Desolation Sound, ride...

Our Hewescraft docked beside our float cabin.It may not be officially winter yet, but traveling in our 22-foot Hewescraft Ocean Pro up and down the lake can get pretty chilly.We chose not to pay extra to have a heater installed when we purchased the...

My floating garden.Growing flowers and vegetables is a good way to enhance your environment, and control the sustainability and quality of the foods you eat. It can be very economical, but not free. Everything costs from seed to harvest. Cliffside po...

fromPowellRiverBooks.comAnd get special pricing at Amazon on two of our popular Kindle titles!Off the GridCoastal BC StoriesFrom the Coastal BC Stories series by Wayne J. Lutz, Off the Grid lets you know more about what it's like to live o...

The log boom before.Over the last two years we’ve undertaken several major projects to improve the quality and safety of our float cabin. Our most recent improvement project was to add more logs to the protective log boom on the south side of our c...

I enjoy yogurt for breakfast and on fresh fruit, so I went to my cookbook library to learn how to make it. While most people are going digital, living off the grid makes print books a valuable resource.Thank goodness people send their old cookbooks t...

PowellRiverBooks.comCYBER MONDAY SALE Get special pricing at Amazon on two of Powell River Books popular Kindle titles! Off the GridCoastal BC StoriesFrom the Coastal BC Stories series by Wayne J. Lutz, Off the Grid lets you know more ab...